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			<h1>A pointless trip to work</h1>
			<p>Day 00402: Tuesday, 2016 April 12</p>
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	The boss said that he&apos;d contact me to let me know if he wanted me to come into work or not.
	I asked whether I should come in or not if I didn&apos;t contact me, but he wouldn&apos;t give me an answer.
	Instead, he insisted that he would contact me either way.
	However, he never contacted me.
	I went into work to ask about it, and he was surprised that no one had contacted me.
	Apparently, he wasn&apos;t doing the contacting himself, he had delegated.
	He gave me new instructions, this time with an action for when no one contacts me: don&apos;t come in <strong>*until*</strong> someone contacts me.
	Next time something like this happens, I&apos;m going to insist that a default action be established, saying that I&apos;ve had problems with people not contacting me in the past.
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	Someone from work later contacted me, so it seems I do need to go into work tomorrow.
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	I was going to pull my bicycle out of the van, but my mother thought that it&apos;d be a good idea for me to leave it in unless I was sure I&apos;d need it today.
	In what way is that a good idea? It&apos;s not difficult to load or unload it, but now I&apos;m stuck without it for the day.
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	I finished documenting the function-loading class so that it could be committed and I could begin work on a new function for dealing with <abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr>&apos;s crashing issue.
	Once the new function was complete, I was able to verify that it did work around <abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr>&apos;s issues.
	The problem is that <abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr> is choking on <abbr title="Domain Name System">DNS</abbr> names for some reason.
	With the <abbr title="Domain Name System">DNS</abbr> names removed from the configuration file, <abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr> no longer complains.
	I&apos;m still not sure what&apos;s causing the underlying issue, but at least <abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr> will be able to stay up when my modem fails.
	I&apos;m not going to document or commit this new function just yet.
	I&apos;m too tired at the moment.
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	Considering picking up a new album, I paid a visit to Bandcamp, where I noticed that <a href="https://professorshyguy.bandcamp.com./album/fragmentation">Fragmentation</a>&apos;s cover art has changed.
	In addition to taking on a lighter hue, it also now has a &quot;FULL ALBUM&quot; strip plastered across it.
	Looking into it, <a href="https://professorshyguy.bandcamp.com./album/rated-heart">Rated Heart</a> has the same banner, <a href="https://professorshyguy.bandcamp.com./album/geekotica">Geekotica</a> now has one that reads &quot;FREE ALBUM&quot;, and one was added to <a href="https://professorshyguy.bandcamp.com./album/history-1-1">History 1-1</a> and a proprietary album that says &quot;COVER ALBUM&quot;.
	Now I wish I&apos;d gotten History 1-1 before it had been changed; it looks better without the banner.
	On History 1-1, it doesn&apos;t actually pose as much of an issue as on the other albums, but it obscures Professor Shyguy&apos;s name on one album as the album name on the other three.
	Additionally, Professor Shyguy&apos;s artist name has been removed from Rated Heart&apos;s album cover for some reason.
	I almost ended up deciding not to buy any music today though.
	I currently have four musical items waiting only to be delivered by postal mail.
	Two are from <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshwoodward/josh-woodward-addressed-to-the-stars">Josh Woodward&apos;s Kickstarter campaign</a>: Addressed to the Stars and a prerelease copy of an unknown album.
	Two are from Professor Shyguy: a new <a href="https://professorshyguy.bandcamp.com./merch/32gb-usb-30-drive-fragmentation-version"><abbr title="Universal Serial Bus">USB</abbr> drive</a> and a special edition copy of <a href="https://professorshyguy.bandcamp.com./album/fragmentation">Fragmentation</a> with a bonus track.
	Until at least some of that has arrived, I was thinking that I probably shouldn&apos;t get greedy and buy anything else.
	However, I&apos;m celebrating finally having a job, at least for a bit, and I&apos;m not actually wanting these physical items, just the music that they come with, some of which I already have.
	I ended up buying <a href="https://kelleemaize.bandcamp.com./album/aligned-archetype">Aligned Archetype</a>, taking the oportunaty to include another note to Kellee Maize about how I&apos;d love it if she used the <abbr title="Creative Commons Attribution">CC BY</abbr> or <abbr title="Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike">CC BY-SA</abbr> license for her other two albums on Bandcamp, the two that I haven&apos;t bought.
	On her own website, she claims that all her work is under the <abbr title="Creative Commons Attribution">CC BY</abbr> license, so she&apos;s not against the use of that license for her albums.
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	I&apos;m going to bring a resume to work tonight so that I can have it if I need it when I walk into the other temp agency on my way home from work tomorrow.
	The temp agency&apos;s a bit far away, but as I have to pass by it anyway, I might as well make a stop there.
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